Quotes About Importance

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

I know when I was a kid, I looked up to athletes. So, if an athlete spoke out on an important issue, then I was probably more likely to hear that opinion and to see that stance and recognize the importance of that.

We can stand in line to buy groceries, we can stand in line to ride at Six flags, and we can stand in line for things that we think are very important.

The goal for me is to stand up for the word of God which is so important to me. It means more to me than what I have.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed female characters. We're held to a perfect standard, but every woman is flawed.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.